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К ВОПРОСУ ОБ ЭРГАТИВНОСТИ В НОВОАРАМЕЙСКИХ ЯЗЫКАХ
С. 380-399.
Sarkisov I.
This research examines the ergativity in Neo-Aramaic languages. It is based on the materials of the previous works and field studies. The results show that the system of Neo-Aramaic preterit constructions, that is usually being called «ergative», in sober fact is not ergative. In reality in Neo-Aramaic languages two different systems of the marking of verbal arguments can be found: a nominative alignment with the reversed meaning of agreement suffixes and an active alignment, while the real ergativity never appears.
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Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2018
Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2018
This research examines the ergativity in Neo-Aramaic languages. It is based on the materials of the previous works and field studies. The results show that the system of Neo-Aramaic preterit constructions, that is usually being called «ergative», in sober fact is not ergative. In reality in Neo-Aramaic languages two different systems of the marking of ...
Added: December 13, 2018
Bulakh M., , in : The Semitic Languages. Second Edition. : L., NY : Routledge, 2019. Ch. 8. P. 174-201.
The chapter presents the language Tigrinya, spoken in Eritrea and in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The description presents the essential fact on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language and is accompanied with a short example of a literary text on Tigrinya, provided with a linguistic glossing. ...
Added: March 21, 2019
Semitic inscriptions in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod: a reply to alternative interpretations
Gippius A., Gzella H., Mikheev S. M. et al., Russian linguistics 2020 Vol. 44 P. 1-12
In the present article, we offer a detailed reply to alternative interpretations of our explanation of two eleventh-century phrases inscribed many times on the walls of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod: коуни рони and парехъ мари. According to our previous article in this journal, the phrases have a Semitic origin: Hebrew qūmī ronnī and Syriac /barren̲k mār/, respectively. In ...
Added: June 30, 2020
Ganenkov D., Studies in Language 2018 Vol. 42 No. 3 P. 529-561
The article discusses gender agreement alternation in Aqusha Dargwa (Nakh-Daghestanian, the Caucasus, Russian Federation). The phenomenon is observed in periphrastic verbal forms with transitive verbs where gender agreement on the auxiliary can show the gender features of either the ergative subject or the absolutive direct object. Considering existing analyses of the phenomenon in terms of ...
Added: October 17, 2018
Lander Yu., RHEMA 2016 No. 2 P. 44-66
This paper provides the description of the universal concessive conditional (UCC) construction in the Kuban dialect of Kabardian, an ergative polysynthetic language of the Northwest Caucasian family. The Kabardian UCC construction involves a subordinate clause which is marked with a combination of the conditional and additive markers and obligatorily contains an interrogative pronoun with free ...
Added: August 8, 2016
Lyavdansky A., , in : Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic. : Open Book Publishers, 2021. P. 415-442.
The aim of this paper is to present a basic word list for Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic provided with etymologies and a discussion of problematic positions in the list. This study, which uses a variant of Swadesh list of 110 basic words, is the first research outcome after creating an electronic corpus of literary Christian Urmi based on the texts published in Soviet Union in 1929 - 1938 ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Pooth R., Kerkhof P. A., Kulikov L. et al., Indogermanischen Forschungen 2019 Vol. 124 P. 245-264
For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo-European linguistics has been the issue of how to reconstruct the alignment system of this ancient language state, given the lack of distinction between S and O marking in the Proto-Indo-European neuters nouns and the problem of the Hittite ergative. An additional complication stems ...
Added: October 12, 2020
Häberl C., Kuzin N., Loesov S. et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2020 Vol. 65 No. 2 P. 473-493
Versions of the folktale Zêrka Zêra (in Kurdish)/Stērka Zerá (in Ṭuroyo) circulate throughout southeastern Anatolia. The story belongs to a widely-disseminated tale type, the ‘Bear’s Wife’, which concerns a young woman who is abducted by a bear (or other wilderness creature) and is forced to spawn and rear his children before escaping or being rescued. ...
Added: September 4, 2020
Open Book Publishers, 2021
The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Letuchiy A., , in : Ergativity, valency and voice. Issue 48.: Berlin, Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. P. 323-354.
In this paper I will analyse the syntactic properties of valency-changing derivations and other syntactic processes in Adyghe (a language of the West Caucasian family spoken in the Republic of Adygheya and the Krasnodar region of Russia, and also in some countries of western Asia such as Turkey). My aim is to determine whether these ...
Added: October 31, 2012
Ganenkov D., / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2016. No. 46/LNG/2016.
This article introduces new empirical data on the syntax of the biabsolutive construction in Lak that sheds new light on the analysis of this construction presented in Gagliardi et al. (2014). Some case-agreeing elements, such as compound anaphors, are shown to be able to bear ergative case despite the fact that no ergative DP is ...
Added: December 9, 2016
L., NY : Routledge, 2019
The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms.
This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following:
• new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic ...
Added: March 21, 2019
Bulakh M., Journal of Semitic Studies 2021 Vol. 66 No. 1 P. 263-292
The present study considers the function of the pattern of the so-called stem IV, primarily associated with causatives, in Soqotri (Modern South Arabian). It focuses on the correlation between the semantics of the source verb and that of the derived verb, examines the semantic classes which are compatible with the causative morpheme, and establishes several ...
Added: February 21, 2021
Bulakh M., , in : Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective. : Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. Ch. 8. P. 159-189.
The article explores the origins of Semitic color terms for yellow, green, and blue. These fundamental color categories are missing from the reconstructed proto-Semitic basic color term system, but their designations were added into basic color term systems of many daughter languages. This chapter focuses on derivations from designations of “referent objects” (objects typically characterized ...
Added: October 27, 2019
Kogan L., Bulakh M., , in : The Semitic Languages. Second Edition. : L., NY : Routledge, 2019. Ch. 12. P. 280-320.
The chapter presents a synchronic description of the language Soqotri, belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch of the Semitic languages and spoken on the island of Soqotra. The description includes the basic facts on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language and is accompanied with a short original text in Soqotri provided with ...
Added: March 21, 2019
Lyavdansky A., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2023 Т. 19 № 1 С. 193-229
On the basis of field and corpus data, preliminary observations are made about the form and function of serial verb constructions (SVC) in the varieties of Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic. Serial verb constructions are considered adopting
“wide” understanding of this phenomenon, represented by the works of Plungyan, Aikhenvald and Andrason among many others. Big amount of data ...
Added: August 7, 2023
Barsky E., Loesov S., , in : Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic. : Open Book Publishers, 2021. P. 1-28.
The ultimate source of inspiration for the present study is our ambition to offer a detailed description of the history of the Aramaic verbal system. A key event in this history is what Goldenberg used to call ‘the morphological revolution’, i.e. the shift, within Eastern Aramaic, from the Middle Aramaic2 verbal systems to those of Modern ...
Added: January 23, 2021
Bulakh M., Acta linguistica Petropolitana 2020 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 677-720
The paper gives a survey of verbs of falling in Tigrinya (an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia). The employment of each verb related to the situation of falling down is illustrated with phrasal examples. The Tigrinya data is further compared with Geez, a closely related extinct language. A special subsection deals with ...
Added: December 25, 2020
Stroński K., Kulikov L., Diachronica 2021 Vol. 38 No. 3 P. 457-501
Non-finite forms constitute an important component of the verbal system of Indo-Aryan (IA) languages. On the one hand, some of them, such as e.g., converbs, have already received proper attention in historical linguistics and
typological literature, with regard to Old Indo-Aryan (OIA), Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA) and New Indo-Aryan (NIA) (cf. Tikkanen 1987; Peterson 1998; Subbarao 2012 among others). Other ...
Added: November 9, 2021
Balakhvantsev A., Kogan L., Lyavdansky A. et al., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2022 Vol. 82 No. 4 P. 911-940
The authors publish a hitherto unknown squeeze made from a North West Semitic inscription. The squeeze originally belonged to the Russian Archeological Institute in Constantinople and is now hosted by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The inscription, performed in relief, may have been made on a large ...
Added: December 24, 2022
Kogan L., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2023
The present article is the result of the author’s long-time occupation with the etymology of the North Ethiopian/Eritrean language Tigre. The Wörterbuch der Tigré-Sprache (WTS) by Enno Littmann and Maria Höfner has been the only source of lexical information for this study, which seems justified in view of the outstanding merits of this unique ...
Added: November 9, 2023
Шведова Е. Е., В кн. : Восемнадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов (Санкт-Петербург, 25–27 ноября 2021 г.). : СПб. : ИЛИ РАН, 2021. С. 207-211.
Тезисы к докладу, появященному каузативно-инхоативным глагольным парам в христианском урмийском новоарамейском. Анализировались способы маркирования в 31 паре глаголов, предложенных в [Haspelmath 1993]. Сделаны предварительные выводы о влиянии на тип кодирования каузативной оппозиции в урмийском таких семантических параметров, как прототипичность ситуации, степень агентивности субъекта и степень переходности. ...
Added: January 25, 2023
Häberl C., Loesov S., Aramaic Studies 2022 Vol. 20 No. 1 P. 72-99
The fable of an insect and a mouse (or some other animal), who marry and embark on a life together, only to end in tragedy, is widely disseminated from the Mediterranean region to India. One version involving a beetle (Ṭuroyo keze, Kurmanji kêz) circulates throughout Anatolia and Iraq. The following Ṭuroyo and Kurmanji version was ...
Added: September 24, 2021